On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 09:18:53PM -0500, Kenneth C. Arnold wrote:
> VNC and X Windows are indeed good ideas for optimized video access
> (though AFAIK SDL has more hardware-acceleration support), but the user
> will (probably) want to see things that go on before the special driver
> is loaded. Think about how VMWare does it. Video _always_ works; the VMWare
maybe an implementation of vga-bios that provides data via vnc?
> special display drivers just make it faster by direct pipes similar to
> what you describe.
>
> Speaking of VMWare, has anyone realized that all the kernel-level code
> for VMWare is (and has to be) open-source? And it's quite well documented
there are hooks to push kernel-code from userspace into that module to
"protect IP" iirc. this of course is a big security-flaw
> internally, also ... could any of the real hackers here get ideas from
> that code?
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